There are not a lot of these types of jobs around. This is very good for the city.

PITTSFIELD — Nuclea Biotechnologies, a developer and maker of diagnostic tests for cancer and diabetes, has received a $510,000 state tax incentive to develop more manufacturing in Pittsfield and create 25 jobs.

“We’re exited about that it really gives us a boost,” said Patrick J. Muraca, president and chief executive officer and co-founder of Nuclea.

The jobs, he said, will involve making a new technology related to his company's diagnostic tests. The jobs will begin at $50,000 or more a year. Muraca credited state Sen. Benjamin Downing, D-Springfield, for his help with the incentive.

"There are not a lot of these types of jobs around," he said. "This is very good for the city."

To get the incentive, Nuclea has to create the jobs in 2014 and maintain them for at least five years. There is a claw-back provision allowing the state to collect taxes if recipients like Nuclea don't come through, according to the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.

Muraca and Downing are also working to fund a new biotechnology building near Nuclea's headquarters in the William Stanley Business Park that would allow Nuclea to bring even more manufacturing west from Cambridge.

Buit this incentive, announced last week, is a separate expansion, Muraca said.

The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center awarded $25 million in tax incentives to 33 life sciences companies last week. The recipient companies have committed to creating more than 1,200 new jobs in the Commonwealth in 2014.